Thanks for the info, I came up with a similar patch to remove the authentication check when transitioning back from the submenu.
On Feb 15, 2017 1:01 PM, "Andrei Borzenkov" <[email protected]> wrote: 15.02.2017 19:54, Robert Kliewer пишет: > I am running grub in such a way that only menu/submenu entries may be > executed by a user (command line and entry editing are disabled). I have > 'superusers' set to blank (""), all menu/submenu entries have the > '--unrestricted' parameter, and I am exporting the 'superusers' so that the > security posture carries over to the submenu. However, when I press escape > in a submenu I get the password prompt as I would if I were trying to use > the command line or edit an entry and cannot get back to the original > menu. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Yes, it has already been reported and the reason is security considerations. See thread with title [PATCH] broken ESC navigation if authentication is used on grub-devel list. Code needs to be audited to decide how to allow return from nested menu in safe way. _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
